A scalable, all-in-one platform for improving personal well–being and safety, with the goal of eliminating interpersonal and gender-based violence.
Verbal and boundary setting skills for relationships, workplace, and daily life
De-escalation and physical self-defense techniques for building confidence and staying safe.
A supportive virtual community of peers and mentors, a resource library, and an extensive library of instructional videos.
Our Methodology
MyPwrApp is based on the principles of Empowerment Self Defense (ESD), a holistic, evidence-based, trauma–informed approach to violence prevention and resistance education that has been practiced around the world for over 50 years. Emphasizing awareness, assertiveness, and verbal and physical strategies for all genders, ages, and physical abilities, ESD provides a comprehensive toolkit for personal safety.
What is Empowerment Self Defense?
Empowerment Self Defense is a comprehensive approach to violence prevention and resistance education that emphasizes awareness and assertiveness skills in addition to verbal and physical strategies. All the strategies are easy to learn and highly effective in preventing or ending an assault.
ESD is based on the following 5 principles:
MyPwr makes the transformative power of ESD accessible to large numbers, creating safer communities and sparking a broader cultural shift.
Think
Using your head to notice what is going on, and what you want and can do.
Yell
Using your voice to express your boundaries clearly.
Run
Using your power to leave when you are in an uncomfortable or unsafe situation.
Fight
Using your body, the only thing you have with you all of the time, to protect yourself from an assailant.
Tell
Using the safe communities built by ESD members to get support and support others.
The Benefits of ESD
MyPwr offers evidence-based strategies for preventing or ending harassment and assault, and living a more empowered, fear-free life. The app covers:
Honing awareness & intuition
Projecting confidence to deter threats
Boundary setting & de-escalation tools
Physical self-defense techniques
Mindfulness & grounding techniques
What is Empowerment Self Defense?
Empowerment Self Defense is a comprehensive approach to violence prevention and resistance education that emphasizes awareness and assertiveness skills in addition to verbal and physical strategies. All the strategies are easy to learn and highly effective in preventing or ending an assault.
The Benefits of ESD
MyPwr offers evidence-based strategies for preventing or ending harassment and assault, and living a more empowered, fear-free life. The app covers:
Honing awareness & intuition
Projecting confidence to deter threats
Boundary setting & de-escalation tools
Physical self-defense techniques
Mindfulness & grounding techniques
The Benefits of ESD
MyPwr offers evidence-based strategies for preventing or ending harassment and assault, and living a more empowered, fear-free life. The app covers:
Honing awareness & intuition
Projecting confidence to deter threats
Boundary setting & de-escalation tools
Physical self-defense techniques
Mindfulness & grounding techniques
What is Empowerment Self Defense?
Empowerment Self Defense is a comprehensive approach to violence prevention and resistance education that emphasizes awareness and assertiveness skills in addition to verbal and physical strategies. All the strategies are easy to learn and highly effective in preventing or ending an assault.
What Our Users Say
As a female student in New York, an app like MyPwr that is all about empowering young individuals and teaching them how to defend by themselves is both comforting and powerful. Learning different skills from the app, listening to stories from the community, and practicing different moves has helped me build confidence and know that I have the strength to defend myself at all times
What a great idea. It was really important for me to use this app because I start college this fall, so I understand the hardships and dangers on campus which are still very prevalent in our modern world
MyPwr’s app impacted my life by showing me a new approach to empowering individuals to speak up and defend themselves. What I loved about the app is on top of providing the resources to professionals to protect yourself, they really give you the ability to handle many situations your own.